SendGrid Travels to espnW Hackathon At Stanford with O’Reilly Books

This weekend ESPN is holding it’s first public hackathon. espnW is focused on attracting women developers to the event to build on several API’s including ESPN, Twilio, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. Current numbers from organizers show 70% of registered attendees are women.

We’re happy to announce that O’Reilly has reached out and will be giving a free ebook to each registered attendee for espnW! Come by the Mashery table to select your book.

We’ve included a list of books relevant to designing web applications, programming languages, web design, mobile apps, big data management, open source for enterprise and more! Adria (@adriarichards), our Developer Evangelist in San Francisco, hand-picked the titles based on her experience working with the developer community and she will be at the espnW hackathon all weekend to help you. You will find her at the Mashery table so stop by and say hello!

The espnW hackathon is being held on the Stanford campus and will kick off tonight with a welcome, API demos and then pitches so attendees can join teams and start building. Saturday morning will kick off with breakfast, another round of API demos as teams code, design and polish their apps for demo and judging that night. The event sold out quickly once it was announced but you can follow along on Twitter for updates via ESPN’s Twitter account (@espnW) and hashtag #hackespnW

List of O’Reilly Books for espnW Hackathon Attendees

Getting Started with OAuth 2.0

Getting Started with Arduino

Designing Great Data Products

The Connected Company

REST API Design Rulebook

API’s: A Strategy Guide

Cloud Application Architecture

Think Python

Python for Data Analysis

PHP & MySQL: The Missing Manual

Exploring Everyday Things with R and Ruby

Environmental Monitoring with Arduino: Building Simple Devices to Collect Data

Programming iOS 5, 2nd Edition

Introducing HTML5 Game Development

JavaScript Web Applications

Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster

Learning Node

Learning Rails 3

Learning PHP, MySQL, Javascript and CSS

Learning Javascript Design Patterns

Learning iOS Programming

Learning Android

Head First HTML and CSS

Head First Mobile Web

Designing Mobile Interfaces

Designing Evolvable Web APIs with ASP.NET

Node For Front-end Developers

Node: Up and Running

Hadoop: The Definitive Guide

The Little Book on CoffeeScript

Big Data Now: 2012

Open Source Strategies for the Enterprise

Ethics of Big Data: Balancing Risk and Innovation

Hacking Healthcare: A Guide to Standards, Workflows, and Meaningful Use

Database Design and Relational Theory: Normal Forms and All That Jazz

Using SQLite

MongoDB and PHP

MongoDB: The Definitive Guide

Windows 8 Out Of The Box

OS X Mountain Lion: The Missing Manual

Wrap up and Thanks

We look forward to seeing you all there and the apps you build and demo for the audience. Hack on!

Thank you to Marsee Henon, Sr. Community Manager of the O’Reilly User Group Program for helping to make this happen!

Author: Adria Richards

Adria is a developer evangelist at SendGrid. Originally from Minnesota but now living in San Francisco, she attends hackathons, conferences and local meetups showing developers how to leverage the SendGrid API. Adria has been a speaker at SXSW, O'Reilly Web 2.0, BlogHer and is involved in helping women programmers like herself learn to code. Loves bacon, snowboarding and endless Wikipedia surfing.